http://www.breitbart.com/article.php?id=CNG.50cde88a891bb4f2c3adb2ce3e936445.861&show_article=1
Unfortunately this won't be the last that we hear of this kind of protest.
People around the world understand the debt their countries shoulder, and with the addition of this project (high speed rail) and no money offered up to fix the rail structure already in place the "people" of Germany are making their disgust known. While I back their right to peaceful protest,
I can't condone placing 1000 school children in harms way. Some one made a very bad error in judgement when they did so.
Chancellor Angela Merkel called for calm Friday after riot police used what critics called "Rambo" tactics to disperse thousands of opponents of a contentious rail project.
"I would hope that demonstrations like these would pass off peacefully," Merkel told public broadcaster SWR after the skirmishes in the southwestern city of Stuttgart on Thursday that raged on into the night.
"This must always be tried, and anything that leads to violence must be avoided."
Demonstrators said that more than 20,000 protestors, including more than 1,000 schoolchildren, were dispersed by close to 1,000 police in riot gear using water cannons, pepper spray, tear gas and batons.
More than 400 people including minors needed medical treatment, mostly because of the tear gas and pepper spray but also due to broken noses and wrists as well as cuts, demonstrators said.
"One man's eye was shot out after he was hit full in the face by water cannon," Axel Wieland, a spokesman for the demonstrators from the BUND green
